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Extract from the Arbanasi Travel Guides:
Hiding high on a plateau 4km northeast of Trnovo, and overlooking Tsarevets and Trapezitsa to the south,
ARBANASI
is one of Bulgaria's most picturesque villages, resembling a cross between a
kasbah
and the kind of
pueblo
that Clint Eastwood rids of bandits. People vanish into their family strongholds for the siesta, and at high noon only chickens stalk the rutted streets.
The origins of Arbanasi have presented scholars with a characteristically Balkan ethnological puzzle. The village's name led most historians to assume that it was founded by Albanian refugees fleeing Turkish reprisals...
read the whole Arbanasi Travel Guides...
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